It looks to me like she's hanging onto the guitar with her left hand. And I= =20 think anyone dressed in that outfit would have had to keep track of the=20 guitar with both hands. The skirt looks like satin or silk and then there's= =20 the fur - both really slippery. You can see that she has the back edge of= =20 the body down on her leg as another attempt to keep track of the guitar. Nancy Carlin
>It looks pretty realistic to me. > > > > The pistagne looks as if it was a whool twisted strand: I can't imagine > > the > > way you would realise this in wood. > >My guitarron (Mexican bass guitar) has a very similar border made from >alternating pieces of different colored wood. > > > > Certainly the rosette looks rather odd - but this may be something to= do > > with the state of the painting. > >Can't tell from the online image. Looks like the rosette might be a >picture rather than an abstract design, but that's certainly believable. > > > What I have always thought is rather strange is the way she is holding= the > > instrument- especially the position of the left hand. It is almost as= if > > she was using the thumb to stop the lower courses. > >I've seen an awful lot of modern untrained guitar players hold their left >hands just like that - it's a natural comfortable position. Also common >with thinner necked instruments like a violin - or a 4-course guitar. > > >The right hand looks > > as > > if she is playing "thumb inside" which is not a very convenient position > > for > > strumming chords. > > >Looks like thumb-in to me. With her little finger anchored to the sound >board, I doubt she's strumming. I've heard a lot about renaissance guitar >players strumming, but all the written music I've seen was obviously >intended to be plucked like a lute. > >-- >Rough-edged songs from a dark place in the soul: >http://DoctorOakroot.com Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web site - www.nancycarlinassociates.com Representing: FROM WALES - Robin Huw Bowen, Crasdant, Telyneg with Robin Huw Bowen, Eiry= =20 Palfrey & Heather Jones, Sian James, Neil & Meg Browning & Carreg Lafar,=20 FROM ENGLAND - The City Waites, Jez Lowe, & Jez Lowe & The Bad=20 Pennies FROM FRANCE - Gabriel Yacoub, FROM DENMARK - Ph=F8nix Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org --
